Oblivion {n.h.}

Chapted 36.

"No fucking way." Harry speaks more to himself than anyone else.

Andrea stands there with three other people, an arm outstretched at me and James carefully, a worried look on her face.

"Danielle?" She mumbles, more confused than I am in the moment.

"How?" I ask, lowering my gun from James as she asked before running over and hugging her, joined by everyone else but the motorcycle brothers in a giant group hug.

"Greg and Alex..." She tells us carefully, looking at Niall with a sorry look on her face.

"We know." I whisper at her carefully, everyone around us quiet, only hearing the horrible sound of the dead wanting inside where we stand.

"I tried to save them I did-" she begins to cry, putting a hand on my boyfriend's shoulder while she apologizes. "We were on our way back and this crazy woman came out of nowhere and she was bitten and I couldn't watch as more and more came." She continues for us. "I ran."

"Wait so the woman in the street..." Jade asks, rubbing her shoulder down to her elbow where her arm was lost that night. "We thought she was you."

"Jade your arm!" Andrea gasps, covering her mouth with her hands before her eyes wander over our group, stopping on James and Grey only to continue again.

I see the look in her eyes when she realizes who we're missing. Josh, Lottie, Gemma, Fizzy, and now Emily.

She says nothing but purses her lips before guiding us, "This way, you guys must be aching for some lunch." Gaining a nod from everyone, as I give James a hard glare and begin to walk with Niall just behind Andrea.

"These are some new friends I've made," Andrea speaks as she gestures towards the three people who were quiet as mice the whole time. "Kaya, Thomas, and Kyle."

The tallest boy; Thomas waves at us, his arm around the girl called Kaya, obviously some romance there also.

"Kyle is Kaya's little brother." Andrea smiles at him, Kyle being just a bit younger than us, somewhere around seventeen or so; same age as Andrea.

We exchange hellos with the new people before following Andrea again, more than eager to eat as she said.

"How long have you been here?" Liam asks from where he walks behind Andrea, his eyes curiously searching the room, only finding several orange doors similar to the one we'd opened just minutes ago.

"Was on my way back to the house, it had started to get late and I'd been really shaken up about what happened with Greg and Alex, then these three showed up and here I am." Andrea gestures to Kaya, Thomas, and Kyle. "They had already occupied the place, just needed help cleaning stuff out." She continues as she scans a keycard onto a door, leading us further into the maze of a building.

"So there's no sanctuaries at all in London?" Jackson asks, you can hear the doubt in his voice as he speaks.

"Not that we haven't found, but we've been looking ever since this whole thing broke out." The older boy, Thomas states. "Maybe- but I think if there was a sanctuary or safe-zone, we'd have found it by now."

Andrea finally opens a final door before we find ourselves in a long hallway, almost like a cafeteria, but more of like a teacher's lounge you'd see back in school.

"That door down there is a room full of bunks, you guys can do that accordingly, the other four of us sleep in these other rooms. Now help yourself to some food." Andrea gestures to cabinets along the walls, all seeming equally good at the moment.

Before another word, my group practically digs in, feasting on the luxuries of food we haven't had in a while. Our other three friends disappear into the rooms Andrea had told us about before while she stays and sits down to chat up the lost time.

"Where you guys been through all of this? Why did you leave the house?" She asks, allowing Niall and I to exchange a look secretly. He sits close to me in a chair, near the end where Andrea stays.

"We were attacked by the man who had taken Jesy." Perrie answers her nonchalantly, obviously trying to avoid the subject of Jacob all she can.

"Seriously?" She leans forward from her chair, surprised at the least. "He took you guys down?"

"It was mostly the walkers.." I trail off, thinking of the people we lost that night. "Jade lost her arm, Gemma was scratched and bitten, and Jacob had chosen Lottie of all the people." I continue, not reverting my gaze from the table before me. "Josh didn't make it out through the walkers." I finish, breaking off a piece of my sandwich before putting it in my mouth hungrily.

"So where'd you go? That was only the first night." Andrea questions again, and the past few days have felt more like a life story then catch up between time.

"We were split up." Louis continues for me, his eyes on mine as he talks. "Jade, Zayn, Perrie, and Liam left before everyone else, we had no idea where they could have gone. Fizzy had fallen terribly ill, But we needed to get out of the cold and made it to a completely clear medical building and waited till morning, that's when Gemma and Fiz didn't quite-" Louis' voice cracks and he doesn't finish the story.

Harry rubs his arm, trying not to hold back his tears as well as Louis.

"Was Jackson's idea to come to London looking for a sanctuary, we were swarmed up and this is the first place that Danielle had seen; lucky for us." Niall looks at me, his eyes glistening as they collide with mine.

That was when my mind was brought back to our most recent loss, and it was James's fault.

I stare at him coldly and look between he and his older brother, remembering this is their first time actually hearing part of our story; before we met them.

"Sorry," Andrea breaks the silence, chuckling slightly. "didn't mean to bring down the mood." She apologizes before standing from her chair and pushing it in shortly after. "I'd say it's about time you guys get one good night's rest. Go ahead and go choose your bunks."

"It's like five till four.." Steven tells her, gesturing his hands up in bewilderment before raising an eyebrow at her.

"Don't think time really matters anymore Steven," she chuckles again, grabbing her leather jacket off of her chair. "and by how you guys look, you'll sleep till six o'clock tomorrow anyway."

Without anything but agreement, I follow Niall through the door at the end of the room to be met with six different bunk beds lined against both sides of the walls of the room, and Andrea wasn't lying that a good rest would be pretty nice for once.

Andrea had seemed different now, as if she came out of her shell. She's like a whole different person now than she was back at the house.

"I call top!" Perrie runs, Zayn following close behind her towards the back of the room.

"Would you like to share a bottom bunk my lady?" Niall grabs my hand and spins me around romantically before waving his hand towards a comfy looking bed on the left side of the wall.

"Nah." I playfully tell him, pretending as if I'm going to walk away, before he tightens his grip on my hand and pulls me closer to him, sitting on the bed.

"Get a room." Grey annoyedly tells us from the top of his bunk across from us, making Niall chuckle the slightest bit.

"Don't think we can." Niall tells him, shrugging sarcastically before pulling the covers to the side and sliding underneath for warmth.

Wasn't long before Jade killed the lights and the room was filled with snores and sighs of the night, and as I drifted to sleep.

There was peace, no gargling and moaning to wake me, no motorcycle engines or headlights. Only peace.